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- Handwritten Rowling book sells for fairy tale price of $4M
- British writer J.K. Rowling continues to work magic, with a handwritten book of her fairy tales selling for more than $4 million Cdn in London Thursday.
- Bestselling fantasy author Pratchett reveals Alzheimer's diagnosis
- Best-selling British author Terry Pratchett, creator of the monumentally successful Discworld series, has revealed that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's disease.
- Paddington Bear's immigration status questioned in new book
- British writer Michael Bond has revealed that a book marking the 50th anniversary of Paddington Bear will centre on the arrest and interrogation of the marmalade-loving fictional character.
- International hits, premieres lined up for Luminato arts fest
- The highly acclaimed soldier drama Black Watch, a multi-lingual South Asian production of the Bard's A Midsummer Night's Dream and a one-week residency by U.S. contemporary dance icon Mark Morris will be among the high profile events anchoring the 2008 edition of Toronto arts festival Luminato.
- Author and critic Elizabeth Hardwick dies at 91
- Elizabeth Hardwick, a Kentucky-born author and critic who helped found the New York Review of Books, has died. She was 91.
- TV rights sold for Giller winner Late Nights on Air
- Shaftesbury Films, makers of ReGenesis and The Murdoch Mysteries, has bought the rights to Elizabeth Hay's Giller Award-winning novel Late Nights on Air.
- Paris National Library opens secret trove of erotic books
- The Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris opened its secret collection of erotic manuscripts and art to the public for the first time in nearly 40 years on Tuesday.
- Page from Napoleon's love story sold for $35,400 Cdn
- The first page from the manuscript of a love story written by Napoleon Bonaparte has been sold at an auction in Paris for $35,400 Cdn.
- Goldmans sue over pirate site offering If I Did It
- Ronald Goldman's father is suing a Swedish website that has posted O.J. Simpson's book If I Did It, about the slaying of his son and Simpson's ex-wife.
- Turkish publisher questioned over atheist's bestseller
- A Turkish publisher says he's seeking legal counsel and readying his written defence after being questioned on Thursday by an Istanbul prosecutor over an evolution specialist's bestselling book.
- Argentine poet Gelman wins Cervantes Prize
- Argentine poet Juan Gelman has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary award, Spanish Culture Minister Cesar Antonio Molino announced Thursday.
- Bangladeshi writer threatened in India
- The Indian government has pledged to continue to host and protect Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen, who is in hiding in India after violent protests against her.
- Lesbian author and advocate Jane Rule dies at 76
- British Columbia writer Jane Rule, author of Desert of the Heart and a mentor to dozens of other B.C. writers has died. She was 76.
- Britain's Lessing unable to attend Nobel Prize ceremony
- British writer Doris Lessing will be unable to travel to Stockholm to accept her Nobel Prize on Dec. 10, the Nobel Foundation said Wednesday.
- Canada Reads books to touch on hockey, glaciers
- An astronaut will defend a book about a 19th-century man obsessed with a glacier and a hip-hop poet will vouch for a book set in the dystopian Toronto of the future in the 2008 edition of CBC Radio One's Canada Reads.